IST Lecture: Stephen Smale

"The Protein Folding Problem via Relations with Patterns in Data and the Geometry of Kernels"

Every protein has a representation as an amino acid chain. Anfinsen’s dogma asserts that this representation determines the 3-D structure of the protein. We use a kernel geometry to shed some light on this dogma.

Stephen Smale is an American mathematician, famous for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture for all dimensions greater than or equal to 5. Smale received the Fields Medal in 1966, and the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 2007. Since 2009, he is Distinguished University Professor at the City University of Hong Kong.

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